4th Astute Ordered!

DanCanovas · 05-21-07, 09:48 AM

well i have to say i'm a tad surprised. I was under the impression that they wouldn't order the 4th. Regardless, glad they are making a commitment to modernising the UKs submarine force.

Jimbuna · 05-21-07, 09:53 AM

Hopefully not at the expense of the surface fleet :hmm:

Oberon · 05-21-07, 09:57 AM

We have a surface fleet? When did that happen?

Next you'll be saying we have a Air-to-air fleet air arm!!

DanCanovas · 05-21-07, 10:11 AM

:rotfl:

well im just grateful for anything for our Navy boys from our govt! next we'll hear the tubes are jamming in warm conditions!

Captain Nemo · 05-21-07, 10:25 AM

If I remember rightly the first Astute is scheduled to launch on 8 June 2007. Hopefully this will make the news in the UK when it happens.

Nemo

Jimbuna · 05-21-07, 11:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DanCanovas

:rotfl:

well im just grateful for anything for our Navy boys from our govt! next we'll hear the tubes are jamming in warm conditions!

Or the fridge magnets on board aren't working

DanCanovas · 05-21-07, 11:53 AM

or the sonar kills dolphins!

gnirtS · 05-21-07, 12:05 PM

I think some work had already begun on 4th and 5th hulls so the order went ahead.

The navy is getting a boost at least, surface fleet with new destroyers and proper aircraft carriers instead of the pathetic obsolete toys we have now IF the order is allowed is good news.

Pity the air force aren't getting a lot or the army.

Oberon · 05-21-07, 12:11 PM

Or that time old favourite:

"The wrong type of water."

05-21-07, 09:48 AM	#1
DanCanovas Grey Wolf Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: London, UK Posts: 778 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	4th Astute Ordered! well i have to say i'm a tad surprised. I was under the impression that they wouldn't order the 4th. Regardless, glad they are making a commitment to modernising the UKs submarine force. __________________

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Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,473 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Hopefully not at the expense of the surface fleet :hmm: __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

05-21-07, 10:11 AM	#4
DanCanovas Grey Wolf Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: London, UK Posts: 778 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	:rotfl: well im just grateful for anything for our Navy boys from our govt! next we'll hear the tubes are jamming in warm conditions! __________________

05-21-07, 10:25 AM	#5
Captain Nemo Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: London, England Posts: 1,144 Downloads: 54 Uploads: 0	If I remember rightly the first Astute is scheduled to launch on 8 June 2007. Hopefully this will make the news in the UK when it happens. Nemo __________________ "I'm afraid there is no disguising the fact that King's obsession with the Pacific and the Battle of Washington cost us dear in the Battle of the Atlantic". Sir John Slessor GCB, DSO, MC, DL AOC-in-C Coastal Command RAF ___________________________________________

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DanCanovas Grey Wolf Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: London, UK Posts: 778 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	or the sonar kills dolphins! __________________

05-21-07, 09:57 AM	#3
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	We have a surface fleet? When did that happen? Next you'll be saying we have a Air-to-air fleet air arm!!

05-21-07, 12:05 PM	#8
gnirtS Officer Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: South Wales, UK Posts: 237 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	I think some work had already begun on 4th and 5th hulls so the order went ahead. The navy is getting a boost at least, surface fleet with new destroyers and proper aircraft carriers instead of the pathetic obsolete toys we have now IF the order is allowed is good news. Pity the air force aren't getting a lot or the army. __________________ Supporting Iran against American warmongering.

05-21-07, 12:11 PM	#9
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	Or that time old favourite: "The wrong type of water."